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• Beck's New Music Video Stars a 2-Year-Old Instagram Star and Her Giant Poodles digital

  Beck’s latest music video, “Fix Me,” from his 2017 album “Colors,” features Mame, a two-year-old Japanese Instagram star with 260,000 followers, along with her three big poodles:…

• ADA Platform Launches in Rome with Exhibition at Floridi Doria Pamphilj digital

  ADA (Your Art and Design Advisor), a new online platform for contemporary art, design, and collecting, is launching in Italy. Founded by art advisor Carlotta Mastroianni (born…

• Google Arts & Culture App Matches Faces to Artworks digital

  Google has launched a new feature within its Arts & Culture app that uses facial recognition software to find artworks resembling user selfies. The app scans a database of over…

• Damien Hirst Takes Control of His Instagram, Shares Personal Reflections digital

  Damien Hirst has taken over his Instagram account, transforming it into a personal diary with reflections, videos, and nostalgic notes. Previously managed by his studio staff, the…

• Blockchain's Potential Impact on Cultural Sector and Art Market digital

  Blockchain technology, the distributed ledger system underlying Bitcoin, is poised to revolutionize the cultural sector by enabling transparent and efficient management of…

• Damien Hirst's mockumentary 'Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable' lands on Netflix to mixed reactions digital

  Damien Hirst's mockumentary 'Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable' is now streaming on Netflix, drawing criticism from viewers who felt misled by its documentary format.…

• MoMA's Chiara Bernasconi on Digital Strategy and Museum Relevance digital

  Chiara Bernasconi, a nine-year veteran at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, discusses the critical role of digital communication and development in museums. She argues that…

• Digital Art's Market Challenges at Ars Electronica digital

  Lorenzo Taiuti reflects on the persistent difficulty of selling digital art, a problem that has hindered its growth since the 1990s when a gallerist questioned how to sell video…

• Welcome to Rome: Interactive Virtual Show on Ancient Roman History digital

  Physicist and science communicator Paco Lanciano has launched Welcome to Rome, a permanent virtual and interactive exhibition inside the former Cinema Augustus on Corso Vittorio…

• Zabludowicz Collection opens London's first permanent VR art space digital

  On January 18, 2018, the Zabludowicz Collection in London will launch 360, the first free, permanent public space dedicated to virtual reality art. The initiative is part of the…

• Facebook launches Watch video service to compete with Netflix and Amazon Prime digital

  Facebook has launched Watch, a new video service available to its 214 million US users since early September 2017. The service is organized into two sections: Discover, featuring…

• Papagna Experience: Un Museo Virtuale Diffuso a Ceglie Messapica digital

  A new invisible museum called Papagna Experience has launched in Ceglie Messapica, a historic town in the Valle d'Itria, southern Italy. The project offers a free, immersive tour…

• Nan Goldin Launches Instagram Account Despite Previous Criticism digital

  Nan Goldin, known for her brutally honest and autobiographical photography that prefigured social media aesthetics, has opened a personal Instagram account despite previously…

• App AR e AI per arte e design: Magic Plan, Rapto, WorldBrush digital

  Un articolo di Simona Caraceni su Artribune Magazine #40 esamina tre app che sfruttano realtà aumentata e intelligenza artificiale per scopi artistici e progettuali. Magic Plan…

• Infinite Zoom Through Art History by AI Engineer Alexander Mordvintsev digital

  Alexander Mordvintsev, a Russian computer engineer at Google, created an infinite zoom video that traverses dozens of Western painting masterpieces from van Gogh to Gauguin. The…

• Terme di Caracalla becomes first Italian archaeological site fully explorable in 3D digital

  Starting December 20, 2017, the Baths of Caracalla in Rome became the first Italian archaeological site entirely visitable in 3D through a virtual reality project called…

• Yōji Kuri's Psychedelic Short Inspired by Bosch digital

  Yōji Kuri, a pioneer of Japanese independent animation born in 1928, created the short film The Midnight Parasites in 1972, now uploaded to Vimeo. The film draws inspiration from…

• Loading Italy: Videogiochi per promuovere il patrimonio culturale italiano digital

  The Loading Italy initiative, launched by the cultural group IVIPRO, aims to develop video games set in Italy's historical and artistic sites. Inspired by the groundbreaking…

• MAUA: Milan's Augmented Reality Street Art Museum Launches in Peripheral Districts digital

  MAUA (Museo di Arte Urbana Aumentata), an augmented reality street art museum, launches in Milan on December 17, 2017, at BASE. The project originates from "Milano Città…

• Interactive Monument in Ohio Lets Visitors Become the Face digital

  A towering interactive sculpture titled 'As We Are' by local artist Matthew Mohr has been permanently installed at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio. The…

• Sushisyrup: The Instagram Archive Blending Pop Culture and Art History digital

  Sushisyrup, an Instagram account with over 4,000 followers, functions as a vast visual archive where images from cinema, television, pop culture, and art history are juxtaposed to…

• DIS Collective Launches Video Streaming Platform dis.art digital

  The DIS collective, founded in New York in 2010 by Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro, is shutting down DIS Magazine to launch a new video streaming platform…

• Steve Cutts' 'Happiness' Animation Satirizes Consumerism digital

  British animator Steve Cutts released a new short film titled 'Happiness' on YouTube, which quickly amassed over one million views in its first week. Set in a dystopian world…

• Gustav Klimt Foundation launches online database for centenary digital

  The Gustav Klimt Foundation, established in 2013 from Ursula Ucicky's donation of works collected by her husband Gustav Ucicky (one of Klimt's illegitimate sons), will launch the…

• Roman De Giuli's 'Matereality': Analog Special Effects Without CGI digital

  Roman De Giuli, a German filmmaker, created a short video titled 'Matereality' that uses only analog materials—iron filings, magnets, reflective pigments, and glitter—to produce…

• Museo del Prado puts 12,000 archival documents online digital

  The Museo del Prado has unveiled a digital archive comprising 12,000 documents that chronicle its 200-year legacy, available at https://archivo.museodelprado.es. Spearheaded by…

• MoMA Launches 'At the Museum' Web Series Behind the Scenes digital

  The Museum of Modern Art in New York has launched a new web series titled 'At the Museum,' releasing episodes every Friday on its YouTube channel. The eight-episode series reveals…

• OK Go's new music video uses 567 printers to create analog pixel art digital

  The US band OK Go has released a new music video for their 2014 song 'Obsession' that uses 567 printers and thousands of colored sheets of paper to create animated patterns. The…

• Disney's Trulli Tales Animated Series Set in Alberobello's Trulli digital

  Disney's new animated series 'Trulli Tales. Le avventure dei Trullaleri' is set in the trulli of Alberobello, Puglia, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996. The series follows…

• Kickstarter Launches Drip, a Subscription Service for Artists digital

  Kickstarter has relaunched Drip, a subscription-based platform acquired in 2016 from Ghostly International, now fully revamped and in public beta. Drip allows fans to support…

• Julia Gorton's Polaroids of 1970s NYC punk scene find new life on Instagram digital

  Photographer Julia Gorton (born 1958) is sharing her archive of Polaroid shots capturing the 1970s punk and new wave scene in New York City, primarily taken at the legendary CBGB…

• Museo Reina Sofia launches digital archive on Picasso's Guernica with 2,000 documents digital

  In partnership with Telefonica, the Museo Reina Sofia has unveiled a complimentary website focused on Pablo Picasso's Guernica, which boasts the most extensive documentary…

• Sky Arte's 'Dark Net' Series Explores the Dark Side of the Internet digital

  Starting Tuesday, November 14, Sky Arte HD will air 'Dark Net,' an eight-episode documentary series investigating the intersection of real and virtual life. The series examines…

• WifiTapestry: an artwork that comes alive with Wi-Fi signals digital

  Dutch artist Richard Vijgen has created WifiTapestry, an installation that visualizes invisible Wi-Fi radio frequencies. The work uses a controller that monitors traffic on 13…

• Roberto D'Agostino Returns to Sky Arte with 'Dago in the Sky' digital

  On November 7, Sky Arte HD premieres a new edition of 'Dago in the Sky', hosted by Roberto D'Agostino. The show explores contemporary culture through technology and the so-called…

• Centro Pecci di Prato lancia web tv con talk show Dart – Il senso dell'arte digital

  Domani, il Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci di Prato lancerà la sua web tv con il talk show 'Dart – Il senso dell'arte', una serie di eventi in diretta streaming che…

• Nidaros Cathedral facade animated from a single photo digital

  Ismael Sanz-Pena, a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute, created an animation of the Nidaros Cathedral facade in Trondheim, Norway, using just a single photograph. The…

• How Artists and Critics Use Instagram as an Artistic Medium digital

  Instagram has transformed the art world by enabling direct artist-collector interactions, bypassing traditional gatekeepers. Artists like Cindy Sherman use the platform for…

• Stop-motion animation on human skin using 3D printing digital

  London-based creative agency DBLG, in collaboration with animation studio Animade, created a stop-motion video titled 'Hey Pressto' to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The project…

• Laurie Anderson's 'Heart of a Dog' Airs on Sky Arte HD digital

  Laurie Anderson's film 'Heart of a Dog' premieres on Sky Arte HD on Friday, October 27. The non-conventional documentary centers on her beloved rat terrier Lolabelle, who died in…